Rail-joint.



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RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. s, 1913.

1,0?5,879. I Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8, 1913.

1,075,879, Patented Oct. 14, 1918.

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WALTER WAIDLIGI-I, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

Application filed March 8, 1913. Serial No. 752,942.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VALTER WAIDLICH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in rail joints, and resides in the construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts set forth in the following description and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings there has been illustrated a satisfactory reduction of my improvement to practice, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that the showing in the drawings is merely illustrative and that I am entitled to such changes in the proportion, size, material, etc., as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement in applied position upon a pair of co-acting rail ends, Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the same, Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4t is a perspective view of one of the joint members, Fig. 5 is a similar view of a co-acting joint member, and Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional View illustrating a slightly modified form of the joint.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, RR designate the rail ends, which are of the ordinary construction, and which have their webs provided with the usual spaced openings for the reception of securing elements, in the nature of nuts and bolts.

The joint is designated by the numeral 1. The joint embodies essentially a pair of coacting members 2 and 3 respectively. Each of the joint members includes a base a, and

has its outer face provided with an inwardly inclined crimped or fluted extension 5, to the edge of which is integrally formed a vertically disposed plate 6, the said plate being fluted, ribbed, or corrugated, as clearly illustrated in the figures of the drawings. The plate 6 and the angular extension 5 are each formed with registering bolt openings 7, and the plates 6 0f the respective members of the joints are adapted when the said members are associated or assembled, to engage within the fishing spaces upon the opposite sides of the rails, the horizontal top or juncture 8 of the inclined members 5 and their vertical depending plates or members 6 underlying and supporting the heads of the coacting rails, while the lower longitudinal edges of the plates 6 bear against the base flanges of the rails at the juncture of the said flanges with the webs of the rails. In order to retain the vertical members 6 in proper spaced relation with the members 5, as well as to provide reinforcing elements for the said members 5 and 6, I have arranged, at suitable intervals between the said members, spacing blocks 9 which may be and preferably are integrally formed with the angular extension 5 of the members of the joint.

The base portion 4 of each of the joint sections 2 and 3 is adapted, when the joint is assembled, to provide a flat bearing face for the base flanges of the co-acting rails. The inner faces of the angular members 5 at their juncture with the base members are spaced one from the other a distance equaling the width of the base flanges of the rails. The base at of the member 2 is incut transversely from, what I will term, its outer face, the said incut or depressed portions terminating short of its opposite side a distance equaling substantially the thickness of the inclined plates 5. The ends of the member 2 provide fiat walls, and the incut or depressed portions which may be designated by the numerals 10, 11 and 12, respectively, are stepped, as indicated by the numerals 13, each of said steps being formed with a downwardly extending finger or rib 14. The walls providing the faces of the steps as well as the faces of the ribs are inclined at an angle from their inner faces toward their terminating wall, which may be designated by the numeral 15. Thus the depressions provide beveled slots, and the portions between said slots provide beveled tongues. The tongues are each provided with one or more bolt-openings 16. The tongues 17 of the member 3 of the joint are also stepped or are formed with what may be termed spaced incut laterally extending portions, one of which overlies the other, so that the top of the base is of a width equaling the distance between the upper steps 13 of the member 2 and the top member or upper faces of the tongues of said member 2. The tapering tongues 17 project outwardly from their juncture with the side member 18 of the said joint member 3, and the undercut portions of the tongues 17 are provided with upset ribs 19 which are arranged upon their upper faces and which are adapted to be received within the spaces between the ribs 14 and the vertical walls of the stepped portions of the tongues of the member 2.

The tongues 17 are provided with openings 20 which are adapted to register with similar openings 21 upon the plate or connecting member 15 of the section 2, and the plate 18 of the section 3 is provided with openin s 22 which are adapted to register with the openings 16 in the tongues of the member 2. The registering openings are adapted to receive bolts 23 provided with connecting nuts 24, and whereby, when the tongues of one of the sections are inserted within the recesses of the co-acting section, the sections may be forced one toward the other to frictionally engage with the longitudinal edges of the base flanges of the rails R, the openings 7 receiving the securing bolts 25 which pass through the openings in the webs of the rails, and the outer faces of the angular members 5 are preferably integrally formed with projections 26 and 27 which have outer vertical faces to provide snug bearings for the inner faces of the heads of the bolts, as well as to provide similar bearings or contact walls for the nuts 28 for the said bolts.

From the above description, taken in con nection with the drawings, it will be noted that the co-acting members may be adjusted one toward the other after the rails are assembled upon the base members and drawn one toward the other a sufficient distance to have the inner walls of their angular portions 5 tightly contact with the longitudinal edges of the rails R, and also provide a smooth horizontal bearing for the base flanges of the rails without regard to the said tongues being fully inserted within the recesses. Further, it will be noted that the peculiar arrangement of the members 5 and. 6 provides, what I will term, a truss bearing for the sides of the webs as well as for the underfaces of the heads, so that when the joint is assembled, the lateral or longitudinal movement of the rails is entirely and effectively prevented. It will be further noted that by arranging the walls of the tongues and recesses of the base at angles, the separation of the joint members may be readily accomplished, and also, if desired and as illustrated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, the members 5 and 6 may present a perfectly smooth surface without deteriorating the effectiveness of the device.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a rail joint, the combination with two co-acting rails, of a joint including a pair of elements each provided with an interlocking base upon which the rails rest, each of the said members having its outer upper edges provided with an inwardly inclined corrugated extension, said extensions having their upper edges downturned to overlie the base, the said downturned members being corrugated and adapted to be received within the fishing spaces upon the opposite sides of the rails, spacing blocks arranged between the angular and down turned members, and means for connecting the said members with the webs of the rails and with each other.

2. In a rail joint, the combination with two co-acting rails, of a joint comprising two separable members, each of said members including an enlarged base which has its upper wall of a width equaling the width of the base flanges of the rails, said bases being integrally formed with fish plates, said bases being further provided with transversely arranged recesses and spaced projections between the recesses, the walls f the projections being angular and stepped, the projecting portions of one of the base members adapted to be arranged within the recesses of the adjacent base member, and means for adjustably associating the base members.

8. In a rail joint, two rails, a joint including a base upon which the rails rest, said joint embodying a pair of separable members each including an enlarged base having a horizontally straight bearing surface, each of the base members having transverse recesses, and projections arranged between the recesses to provide tongues and grooves, the valls of the tongues being inclined and being stepped, the stepped portions being formed with longitudinally extending beads, the stepped and beaded tongues of one of the sections adapted to be inserted within the stepped and beaded walls of the coacting section, means for adjustably connecting the base members, and means for securing the fish plates with the webs of the rails.-

In testimony whereof I atfiX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WVALTER VVAIDLICH.

Witnesses PATRICK BOYLE, CHARLES WV. DOMINE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

